Eliza Anne Pitcairn

  • Artist (Painter)
Eliza Anne Pitcairn was an art student. Her father was Robert Pitcairn, a Hobart Town solicitor. In 1852 Pitcairn was taught to draw Tasmanian flowers by Mary Morton Allport.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Eliza Anne Pitcairn
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • c.1852 Runnymede, New Town, Hobart, Tas.
Active Period
  • 1852
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

art student, was the only daughter of Robert Pitcairn, a Hobart Town solicitor, and Dorothea Jessy, n ée Dumas . They lived at Runnymede, New Town near Hobart. As a family friend, the young Eliza was taught to draw Tasmanian flowers by Mary Morton Allport , who records helping Eliza Pitcairn with her painting in November-December 1852. At this time Eliza was painting a chessboard with a native flower in each of the squares, in imitation of one Mrs Allport was making, but progress was slow. No further painting activity is recorded after she married F.J. Cockburn.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
spouse of
James Pattison Cockburn
1779
Artist (Painter)
child of
Dorothea Jessy Née Dumas Pitcairn
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Robert Pitcairn
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Mary Morton Allport
1806
Artist, Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
A student of Allport's.
associate of
Miss Legge
Artist (Draughtsman)
relative of
Miss Legge
Artist (Draughtsman)
sibling of
Mr Pitcairn
Artist (Photographer)
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